Raíces Sustainable Disaster Relief Fund – THANK YOUS!

Raíces Cultural Center gives our supporters a huge THANK YOUfor making last week’s Giving Tuesday fundraiser drive a success. This thank you extends to all who have contributed to our Sustainable Disaster Relief Fund for Puerto Rico to date and those who have donated their time and talents to help us raise funds.

UPDATES:

2/11/2017: This weekend we broke the halfway mark and have raised a total of $5,262 thanks to a generous donation from a neighbor while grocery shopping and the funds raised at our presentation for Marc’s Place Coffeehouse. Thank you to all who have contributed and to Marc’s Place for giving us the opportunity to share with our community.

12/31/2017: We just broke the $4,000 mark on the last day of 2017! In just one day we have raised over $400 in a year-end push from individual donors and Soma Yoga’s generosity in offering their year-end practice donations to our Fund. So proud of our community!

12/22/2017: Thanks to some really generous donations this week we are now above $3,500 and going strong. We just heard today that Soma Yoga will be designating their Year-End Practice donations collected to our Sustainable Disaster Relief Fund. Go and get your yoga on for PR, December 31, 10am-noon at Soma Yoga. We will be there!

12/17/2017: We have gotten a few more online and in-person donations this week and we broke the $3,000 mark! Our fund is now up to a total of $3,191! We also received about 1,000 seed packets from High Mowing Organic and Hudson Valley Seed Companies. We are overjoyed at all the generous donations by our family, friends, community and collaborators.

12/10/2017: Extra special thank yous to Lisa Bagwell and Dottie Ji who sent in generous donations by check this week and to the Rutgers Yoga and Reiki Club who held a fundraiser yoga class for PR today. Our total is now up to $2,955.

12/6/2017: Huge thank you to Kati Pope, who is one of the artists who participated in our recent Water Is Life art project. Kati saw our call out for an $80 donation to cover the shipping of 400 packets of organic seed from High Mowing and sent a message over to let us know a check was in the mail within minutes. You are an angel Kati! Today we received additional online donations, bringing the full amount so far up to $2,615!

12/4/2017: We are up to $2,460, almost 1/4 of our campaign goal Additional donations will be used for sustainable relief & rebuilding supplies requested by the organizations we will work with and donate to on the island. Thank you to all who donated this weekend!

11/29/2017: Our Giving Tuesday campaign raised $1,271, bringing our full total for our PR Sustainable Relief Fund up to $2,408 as of Wednesday, November 29 at noon! We are well on our way towards our goal and we have our family, friends and supporters to thank for that! Your contributions will make a huge impact on our upcoming Disaster Relief Trip to Puerto Rico. We will be updating you all on our work with grassroots organizations on the island to fulfill the long-term goal of sustainable and resilient rebuilding. Read more about the goals of this trip and the organizations we will be working to support on our campaign page.

This would not have been possible without the generous donations of the following family, friends and community members. We will be updating this list as we continue to take in donations of funds, supplies and time spent working to raise funds and awareness. Thank you to:

In addition, we want to give a special shout out to the Juntos Together Coalition, which has provided additional financial support to the organizations we are supporting, advocating for and partnered with for long-term sustainable and just recovery in Puerto Rico.

Thank you again for all you have done. We appreciate your generosity and willingness to share!

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